Title :
Performance study of linearly connected parallel machines through simulation
Author :
Bautista, Lydia Fernandez ; Sarkar, Dilip
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Math. & Comput. Sci., Miami Univ., Coral Gables, FL, USA
Abstract :
The authors study the performance of linearly connected parallel machines by examining several job scheduling algorithms for these computers. The motivation for this study is the observation that the computational power of personal computers is poorly utilized, and if personal computers are connected in parallel, they must be used instead of expensive mainframe computers. They also study the common problem of sorting large files by using parallel computers and compare the performance with that of sequential computers. These simulations demonstrated that linearly connected personal computers can provide good computing power and speedup if the local computing load on these personal computers is not too high
Keywords :
digital simulation; parallel machines; performance evaluation; scheduling; sorting; computational power; job scheduling algorithms; linearly connected parallel machines; performance; sequential computers; simulation; sorting large files; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Concurrent computing; Discrete event simulation; Parallel machines; Processor scheduling; Scheduling algorithm; Sorting; Stochastic processes;
Conference_Titel :
System Sciences, 1993, Proceeding of the Twenty-Sixth Hawaii International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Wailea, HI
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-3230-5
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.1993.284097
